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ChrisMcJ

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September 29th, 2008 1:42 PM

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The Baltimore Saga Part 1

Bulletin:

Well, I want to note that we're already behind on the webcomic! My apologies for that. We should be back on track by next week and hope to stay that way. Last week was a mad rush to get the cards, mini-comics and issue 2s printed for the con which left little time to do much else (let alone sleep). And the week is going to be spent mostly recovering from the trip.

But I'm planning on revamping the style of the strip to read like a normal comic page rather than the four panel newspaper strip so that we can get more story and gags in each week.

Moving along...the epic...the mighty...the near deadly...

BALTIMORE SAGA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Baltimore was a mixture of highs and lows. There were some extremely great moments intertwined with some sincere anxiety and dread. Rebecca and I had decided to take both Friday and Monday off from work to allow adequate time for both travel and recovery for the double 7 hour trek that began in South Carolina and ended in Baltimore.

My goal was to have us on the road sometime between 10am and noon. We managed to leave at roughly 11:45 so everything started out well enough. Two hours of driving was done before our first break in North Carolina where we would be arriving at a discounted book store which carries trades and graphic novels. Aside from a gas fueling and a food break (which was to be done in one stop) this was to be our only break.

We ended up spending a longer amount of time than expected at the store but it was well worth it, having picked up quite a few trades at a nifty price and scoring a one of a kind deal on one particular book, which I will share later. Actually, most of the purchases made were for friends of mine who I promised to be on the look out for. I picked up CEREBUS vol. 1 and 2 for a bud. For another friend, I scored some Savage Dragon, PvP and Walking Dead, which I was later able to get autographed as well so they should be extremely happy.

By the time we left the store, we realized it was much later than we had planned on departing. So we hit the road, planning our next stop to be in an hour where we would refuel and grab grub. We had expected some heavy rains due to the weather conditions of the storms going on but this part of North Carolina was rather sunny even though the road was still wet from earlier rains.

We continued on I-95, having traveled roughly thirty minutes. Rebecca was driving the first leg of the trip and I had been occupying myself playing Lego Batman on her Nintendo DS. By this time I had put it down, realizing I had some pains in my left hand from playing, not being used to the amount of work it required to operate the controls. Sadly, I'm not much of a gamer since most of my time is spent drawing and I'm a righty so my left hand is the lazy bastard appendage.

I think at this point I was just putting down my Zune that Rebecca had gifted me. I was noticing how particularly sunny it was and how there weren't any other cars around on the interstate.

This is when I heard Rebecca make a slightly startled noise and began to feel the car turning rather rapidly in a counter clockwise motion.

Very calmly, very cooly, I began an inner monologue.

My first thoughts were...

"We're hydroplaning."

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